Hydrocarbon-traction-engine body.



V No. 731,689. PATENTED .TUNE 23 1903.

LA. @3.11. KLocKsIEM. HYDROGARBON TRAcTIoN ENGINE BODY.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 27, 1902.

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` FREDERICK A. KLOCKSIEM AND HENRY F. KLOCKSIFM, OF PATON, IOWA.`

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HYDROCARBON-TRAj'loN-ENGINE Boor. l

. SPECIFICATION forming part o f Letters Patent N o. 731,689, dated J' une`23, 19031.

Application mea December 27, 1902. Serial No- 136,872-` fNo model-1 l To all whom/.it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK A; KLooK- SIEM and HENRY F. KLooKsIEM, citizens of the United States, residing at Paton, in the county ofv Greene and State of Iowa, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in `Iflydrocarbon-Traction-Engine Bodies, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of our invention are to provide `a body for hydrocarbon traction-engines of simple, strong, durable, and inexpensive construction, designed to support the engine proper and to contain water for `cooling the engine and hydrocarbon for supplying the engine. j i,

A further object is to provide an enginebody of this class in which the heat from the body of water will not be transmitted to the bodyof hydrocarbon, so thatthe hydrocarbon,

while the engine is workingwithout regard to the temperature of the body of water.

i Our invention consists in certain ,details in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out panying drawings, in which--,

Figure 1 shows in perspective a vertical longitudinal sectional `View of the complete engine-body, the parts ot-which are slightly` Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the complete engine-body mounted on wheels with parts thereof broken awayto show the internal construction, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view illustrating the arrangement of the Ventilating-openings.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, we have used the reference-numeral l0 to heads 11 and l2 provided with flanges projecting outwardly and riveted to the cylinder 10. At the inner end of the cylinderlO is placed a considerable distance `from the end of the cylinder for the purpose` of admittinga woodendisk-shaped head 13,` the edges of which are designed to rest against the liange of the head l2, the said body porsupporting rim.

tion being of such length beyond the head 12 as to project some distance beyond the outer face of the wooden head 13. The numeral 14 indicates a cylinder similar to the cylinder 10, but of less length. It is provided with the flanged heads 15 and 16, riveted to the body portion,the inner heads 16 being placed a considerable distance from the inner end of the cylinder 14g.

The numeral 17 indicates a wooden diskshaped head designed to` enter the inner end of cylinder 14. and rest against the iiange of head 16.

The numeral 18 indicates a connecting and bracing rim designed to enter the adjacent -ends of the cylinders 10 and 14 and to rest against the adjacent faces of the wooden partitions 13 and 17 when the adjacent edges of the cylinders 10 and 14 are together. This connecting and supporting rim is iirmly connected to both cylinders 10 and 14 by screws 18, and obviously when thus connected the :rim 1S and the flanges of the heads will serve to space apart the wooden disks 13 and 17 and firmly hold them in position.`

It will be seen by the accompanying drawings that there are four separate rows of rivets and s crewsnear the abutting ends of the cylinders, and we have provided means for permitting circulation of airA through the vchambers formed between the heads 12 and 16 by punching holes 19 between the rivet or screw 'holes of the said four rows, as illustrated in Fig. 3. f

VIn practical use the cylinders 10 and 14 have their heads at the inner Aends of the cylf inders placed a considerable distance from vthe inner ends. Then the wooden disks are placed in the cylinder ends,l resting against the fianges of the heads. Then the connecting and supporting rim is placed between thc cylinder ends, resting against the wooden heads, and then the cylinder endsare connected by screws to the saidrconnecting and The rim serves the double function of rmly connecting the two cylinders and also of spacing 'aparta the wooden, heads, and three air-chambers areprovided `between the interiors of the two`cylinders,

one between the wooden disks 'and two between the wooden disks and the cylinderheads,and in each of these air-spaces are open- IOO .ings 19 to permit circulation of air.

Hence if the engine-body were used for water and gasolene and the water should become heated by reason of its being used for cooling an engine it is obvious that the heat will not be transmitted to the body of gasolene at the opposite end of the engine-body.

v Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-

1. The combination of two cylinders, each having a head near its inner end, a disk in each cylinder spaced apart from the head, and a connecting and supporting rim in the adjacent ends of the cylinder and connected to the cylinder ends.

2. The combination of two cylinders, a flanged head in each cylinder with a flange projecting toward the adjacent end of the cylinder, a disk in each cylinder resting against said ange, and a rim inserted between the adjacent endsof the cylinders connected with the cylinders and engaging the disks to space them apart.

3. An improved engine-body, comprising two independent tanks, a flanged head near one end of each tank, a wooden disk in each tank resting against the flanged head, and a connecting and supporting rim placed in the ends of the tanks resting against both wooden disks and secured to both tanks, said tanks being provided with perforations between the heads and the disks and between the disks, for the purposes stated.

FREDERICK A. KLOCKSIEM. HENRY F. KLOCKSIEM.

Witnesses:

Mrs. F. CLosKsIEM, J. W. KLooKsIEM. 

